‘So happy you’re here’: how a librarian became an advocate for mental health

Mychal Threets' sudden rise to fame as a pusher of library joy' isn't over despite his exit from his job to focus on himself

Mychal Threets has spent most of his 34 years in libraries - first as a homeschooled kid finding community and refuge in the world of books and then as an adult working as a librarian.

I grew up in libraries, raised by libraries, loved everything about libraries," he said in an interview. It is a place where you can just be as you are, you can come on inside, you can take joy in that as an introvert [or] an extrovert."